Carbon offsetting 'better than green home improvements'

Though the government wants us all to get involved in green home improvements, one expert says that carbon offsetting is actually more effective.

Climate Care, which deals with offsetting, says that insulating you home or installing wind turbines are both very expensive changes which have a minimal impact on reducing your home's carbon emissions.

"The same amount of money, if it was invested elsewhere in the world, could achieve much greater reductions," said Michael Buick from Climate Care.

He explained that if you are looking at biggest carbon impact per pound spent, then you have got to have a mechanism for funding projects around the world.

Therefore "offsetting has a really crucial role to play, it's part of a global response as opposed to in your own back yard".

Carbon offsetting means paying someone else for use of their unused 'carbon quota' and is most popularly seen in celebrities planting trees out of guilt for their long-haul air flights.


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